Re: gtk2-perl stable releases

[Ross McFarland <rwmcfa1 neces com>]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 05:56, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-03-24 at 04:50, muppet wrote:
> > Now that gtk+-2.4.0 is out, we are able to make our Glib and Gtk2 
> > modules stable.
> 
> I'm not very happy with you declaring total API/ABI stability before the
> date on the GNOME Platform Bindings schedule. Why the rush? Let's just
> hope that you don't need to change anything before then.

we decided that it would be a good idea to do a stable release with
enough time left to do another if need before we had to submit to the
language bindings. if that release stands works fine and doesn't have
any major (non-api) problems then it will go into lang bindings. if not
then we'll have enough time to rel another for inclusion. 

a sizable group of people wait around for a stable rel before
downloading and trying out new stuff. if that didn't happen until the
bindings deadline we would of had a whole lot of new people testing (and
potentially finding new problems) with no time/way to fix them. 

i would be more worried if the first 'stable' rel (with 2.4.0 support
and lots of other new stuff) was done without the time to fix possible
problems before it had to be included in the bindings set.

-rm